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__ EXPERIENCE WITH FEMA REQUIREMENTS Solid Resources, Inc. (SRI) has developed a team of 40 full-time employees with a superior working knowl- edge of the eligibility guidelines for FEMA, FHW A, USACE and NRCS technical programs to ensure the highest level of successful reimbursements to its clients. SRI's Recovery Team Public Assistance Coordina- tors, Project Officers, Debris Specialists and other Technical Specialists are highly competent and experienced in all facets of FEMA grant management and disaster recovery services; with backgrounds and training in a wide variety of fields as well as in emergency management. We believe in going above and beyond our cli- ents' expectations when it comes to quality of work. SRI is uniquely suited to provide debris monitoring services to the City of Sunny Isles Beach because of: . Extensive experience providing disaster management services for the Florida OEM and DOT; . SRI has been tasked by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to provide emergency recov- ery training to FDOT staff, as well as Florida state agencies and local governments statewide; . Extensive FEMA and FHW A debris removal and disposal monitoring experience; . SRI has provided an entire array of emergency management services to the FOOT including prepara- tion of project worksheets, appeals, Summary of Documentation and assistance with final closeouts in conjunction with FEMA staff; . SRI's professional staff have an unparalleled knowledge of all FEMA, FHWA, USACE and NRCS reimbursement requirements; . Extensive experience developing and maintaining automated accounting systems and conducting audits of reimbursements for debris costs paid by FEMA and FHW A to local governments at the request of the Florida Department of Transportation and Florida Division of Emergency Management SRI is currently under contract with the Florida Department of Transportation to provide Public Assistance Coordinators and Project Officers to all Florida counties in which disasters have been declared since 2004. For the past 22 months SRI has assisted more than 800 FEMA Public Assistance applicants and have handled ap- proximately $4.3 billion in projects. SRI's staff are experienced in providing emergency management work at the federal, state and local levels. The SRI Public Assistance (P A) Team has provided sixty (60) Public Assis- tance Coordinators and Project Officers to assist with the post-disaster recovery process in the State of Florida. The FDOT has also tasked SRI to develop and execute an audit program that will meet the requirements of both the FHW A and the FOOT to verify that hurricane related FHW A Emergency Relief (ER) Program expen- ditures (specifically payments made to local governments) are in compliance with State and Federal require- ments. The audit program consists of reviewing approximately $500 million in FHW A-ER program related costs that were associated with the 2004 hurricanes; to verify that audited expenditures were in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedures. SRI was instrumental in forming the State's first Disaster Debris Team and assisted FEMA in the development of FEMA' s debris training seminar in 2006. Training materials prepared by SRI emphasized the environ- mental requirements of debris operations. No other emergency management firm has done more to assist Flor- ida local governments recover and process their Federal reimbursements than SRI, and the depth and breadth of experience held by our professional staff is unmatched. Following Hurricane Wilma, SRI was responsible for monitoring the debris removal of approximately one mil- lion cubic yards of storm debris in Collier County. This included debris classifications of vegetative, C&D, SOLI)) Q RESOURCES E"\1I\a>."lJNIAl" blf.l\Gll'lCY ~\1Cli 8